63% Luss Seafood Bar, Loch Lomond, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 19, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review I’m going to escape to my island paradise. Not Barbados, nor the Galapagos (to hang with my tortoise pals). I’ve decided on Inchcailloch, one of the small islands on Loch Lomond. The name, in Gaelic,...
63% Mezzidakia, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 12, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review I hope to be reincarnated as a restaurant reviewer’s plus one. They get to eat all the food, and don’t have to do any work. No aide memoires have to be made while they vacantly shovel in the...
80% Sonder, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 5, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review It was pouring with rain when we visited Sonder, so we experienced a moment of chrysalism – “the amniotic tranquillity of being indoors during a thunderstorm.” This is a neologism invented by writer...
75% El Cartel (Teviot), Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 28, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Happy unbirthday to me. I have an annual tradition of going to El Cartel on Thistle Street to celebrate my magical day. I’ll always get a frozen margarita (sometimes two) in the flavour du jour, a couple...
80% Hawksmoor, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 20, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Did you know that the risk of a heart attack spikes on Mondays? Proof indeed that it’s the rubbishest day of the week. I always get the blues when Tuesday to Friday are looming over me like a criminal’s...
80% 27 Elliott’s, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 14, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review There’s a new hipster haircut. It’s sort of like someone has stuck a tiny cereal bowl on top of someone’s head, then shaved around it. There were a couple of people – a man and a woman – at...
80% 83 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 7, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Ah, the dilemma of deciding whether to include the title AND address of a restaurant, see above, that’s named after its location. I believe I have done the right thing, style wise, in including both, even...
85% Borough, Edinburgh, Restaurant Review Gaby Soutar August 31, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review I’m one reader down. My dear old dad died last month, thus breaking my run of 600 or so reviews. Since then, the Soutars have been on the grief diet. This started with an unusual lack of appetite,...
70% Grand Café at The Scotsman, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar August 17, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review The newest inhabitants of this newspaper’s old office put a call out on Twitter, looking for stories about the building. I’ve been at The Scotsman for 16 years, but missed a stint in the beautiful North...
70% Brasserie Prince by Alain Roux, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar July 27, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Every time someone says Princess Street, instead of Princes Street, a scone in the Jenners cafe fails to rise and the One O’Clock Gun doesn’t make anyone jump out of their skin. It’s a crime against...
